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Re: USS America LHA-6

wally tilton — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:57:06 GMT

at first it seemed weird it would awesome to see the name live on with leading edge tech stuff ,you all are correct its awesome ... From: Gary Cockerham

Re: USS America LHA-6

Carl Mottern — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:34:12 GMT

Dittos Gary! It was a proud moment indeed. Glad we could be there with Admiral Fuller and some othr HS-15 shipmates to share in that occasion. Seems like

Re: USS America LHA-6

Gary Cockerham — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:18:59 GMT

Wally, Check out the USS America Carrier Veterans Assoc. website, it will probably answer a bunch of your questions, basically a vote was taken amongst members

Re: Happy Fourth of July!

Sidney Adams — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:05:37 GMT

Lisa, Thanks and the same to you, have a happy and safe 4th of July. Also thanks for being in this group, your thanks and input are priceless. I'm

Re: Water Hours, Best Job and Cumshaw

frank schaefer — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:18:23 GMT

I too, served during that time and never had a problem with with water restrictions. Always more than enough for showers and anything else. Flattopfrank W Div.

Re: Water Hours, Best Job and Cumshaw

Edward Hura — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 23:46:12 GMT

To All, I, like Oletar, served aboard the America during that first Med Cruise. I was ships company and not part of the "air wing passengers". I continued my

Re: Water Hours, Best Job and Cumshaw

wally tilton — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:55:51 GMT

thats funny to hear because as an ms in cpo mess food talked and bs walked.s hehehe extra days in port , special trip[ on the birdge during flight ops

Re: Water Hours, Best Job and Cumshaw

Oletar — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:58:22 GMT

VF-33 and VF-102 were attached to America on her maiden voyage to the Med. I served on that trip and for the life of me I remember nothing of water hours

Re: Water Hours, Best Job and Cumshaw

Carl Mottern — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:43:54 GMT

Hay Shipmate! We were on board together! Gary and I were in HS-15 in that time fram. We later went to INDY with the restof Airwing-6. Ole INDY was no

Re: USS America LHA-6

Carl Mottern — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:35:54 GMT

Why do you say this Wally? Our proud old girl deserves tohave her name recyclcled as has SARA's, LEX, YORKTOWN, ENTERPRISE, HORNET, and others. ORISKANY also

Happy Fourth of July!

Lisa W — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:11:20 GMT

Hi All, I just wanted to wish everyone a terrific and safe holiday weekend. I don't have the gift of words like Banquo (Lord knows he would make it so

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Re: Water Hours, Best Job and Cumshaw

Gary Cockerham — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:47:15 GMT

I remember sneaking up to officers country a time or two in the wee hours to an out of the way head that had a shower. No telling what the penalty would be for

Re: USS AMERICA

Brian — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:40:57 GMT

When I was at WAMR in 80 to 81 yards and Med cruise we had Turk Husbands as our news man and, a SR Chief for sports. Our yoman was Perrault? a short guy, I

Re: Water Hours

James Lee — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:49:43 GMT

Banquo, The Navy never used JP-4 on the ship they used JP-5 Yes I remember the smell it would permeate everything ... From: gjsdb